Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Saw an unexpected Animatrix reference on Twitter today - and from an unrepentant promptfondler, no less:
This ended up starting a lengthy argument with an āAI researcherā (read: promptfondler with delusions of intelligence), which you can read if you wanna torture yourself.
yes. thatās all true, but academics and artists and leftists are actually calling for Buttlerian jihad all the time. when push comes to shove they will ally with fascists on AI
This guy severely underestimates my capacity for being against multiple things at the same time.
ya know that inane SITUATIONAL AWARENESS paper that the ex-OpenAI guy posted, which is basically a window into what the most fully committed OpenAI doom cultists actually believe?
yeah, Ivanka Trump just tweeted it
But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them.
oh boy
barron: shows ivanka the minecraft speedrun
ivanka: I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT, BROTHER
edit: accidentally read ivanka as melania, now corrected
Personally, I was radicalized by āwatch for rolling rocksā in .5 A presses
parallel universes were the inspiration behind urbit, it all makes sense
Inventor sez āI locked myself in my apartment for 4 years to build this humanoidā. Surprisingly, not a sexbot!
not a sexbot!
Skill issue.
You know thatās for Gen 2.0
This tech curve is about to go exponential, if you know what Iām sayinā
āventure capitalists, probably
all hail the hockey stick may we forever outspend all competition and reap the rewards of a ravaged market we solely control
Was salivating all weekend waiting for this to drop, from Subbarao Kambhampatiās group:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have achieved block stacking abilities. It is a straight shot from here to cold fusion! ā¦ unfortunately, there is a minor caveat:
Looks like performance drops like a rock as number of steps required increasesā¦
correct me if Iām reading this wrong ā the results are that LLMs are much, much worse than classical AI at planning block placement for SHRDLU? that seems pretty damning
Yes, the classical algo achieves perfect accuracy and is way faster. There is also a table that shows the cost of running o1 is enormous. Like comically bad. Boil a small ocean bad. Weāll just 10x the size and it will achieve 15 steps inshallah.
Imo, this is like the same behavior we see on math problems. More steps it takes, the higher the chance it just decoheres completely. I canāt see any reason why this type of thing would just āclickā for the models if they are also unable to do multiplication.
I mean this just reeks of pure hopium from OAI and co that things will magykly work out. (But the newer model is clearly better^{tm}! I still donāt see any indication that one day that chart is just going to be 100s across the board.)
Large Reasoning Models
May the coiners of this jargon step on Lego until the end of days
HN seems to be particularly deranged today, doesnāt it?
It mostly seems to be a mopey debate over whether Saltmanās impending apotheosis is good or bad.
I think theyāve been pretty sane AI-wise, lately.
you sure about that?
The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die. Itās not so much that I think people have used AI, but that I know they have with a high degree of certainty, and this certainty is converging to 100%, simply because there is no way it will not. If you write regularly and youāre not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. Youāre out. And the growing consensus is āwhy shouldnāt you?ā, there is no escape from that.
This is someone who literally canāt tell good writing from bad, so he assumes everyone is using AI
Heās so close to being depressed enough to maybe ask a vital and important question about meaning and his own relationships with technology. But probably heāll just buy more AI.
Watching AI guys slowly come around feels similar to how people have to care for their alcoholic relatives. Folks have to come to the point where they recognize where the unacceptable bullshit lies on their own, then you can show them the cold hard facts and a path back to the real world, but getting there is absolutely exhausting and often heartbreaking.
True believers at Voxā Future Perfect āverticalā let out a hearfelt REEEEEE as Saltman makes the obvious move to secure all the profits
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/374275/openai-just-sold-you-out
shocked that scorpions in a scorpionās nest funded by their scorpion mates might have fallen into stinging
